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Given the Cubs century of futility, it's only fitting that once again a joyous event in team history is tainted with failure.
As part of Monday's Opening Day festivities, the team unveiled a statue of Ernie Banks outside Wrigley Field.
When Mr. Cub himself saw the statue on Monday, he asked in disbelief, ""Is that me?"
Many others asked, "Um... isn't that a typo?"
Along one side of the statue's base, sculptor Lou Cella of Fine Art Studio of Rotblatt-Amrany carved Banks' famous quote "Let's Play Two" into the block of granite. Except he forgot the apostrophe, so it reads, "Lets Play Two."
Cella received a lot of attention for his little grammatical slip-up -- by the time the Trib's Mary Schmich contacted him up he already knew what her call was about.
In many ways, we sympathize with Cella. From our time here at Chicagoist, we know all too well how quickly others like to publicly pounce on every typo and misspelling. We also know any mistake we make can quickly be fixed. Such is the beauty of hypertext!
We're willing to bet that Cella can also fix his mistake fairly easily. We'll also bet that all the local news channels will have full coverage of the monumental event.
UPDATE: An engraver added the missing apostrophe to the Ernie Banks statue this morning. It took about ten minutes. Expect at least 15 minutes of coverage from on tonight's nine and ten o'clock news broadcasts.
Photo by kellyhafermann
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Your sympathies are misplaced.
The guy had three words to freaking worry about, three words to sculpt over an extended period of time.
"From our time here at Chicagoist, we know all too well how quickly others like to publicly pounce on every typo and misspelling. We also know any mistake we make can quickly be fixed. Such is the beauty of hypertext!"
Such is the life of people who want to work as writers/journalists/bloggers. Don't cry about it. Don't even think of crying about it.
For example, unless you're talking about the guy who played Frasier, it's spelled "grammar".
grammer. heh.
all the local new channels, huh? :-)
But none of you caught the missing apostrophe in my title? I expected better of my readers...
Ha!
Our company worked on the statue but not the pedestal.
Still an error is a fitting tribute for The Cubs.
I seem to remember a few years back some artist who did a huge mosaic piece for a library in California and she misspelled multiple historical great's names wrong: "Eistein","Shakespere", "Van Gough", "Michaelangelo."
Whoah matilda. What is your problem? I gave you props for your comment in Extra Extra, but geez! You seem to have a pretty negative view of the website and the writers you frequent so much, and comment on so much. And wouldnt all your commenting make you some what of a blogger yourself?
Are you pms-ing today?
i assumed that "grammer" was just benjy being ironic...LETS hope this mistake brings attention to our underfunded schools. the cubs care.
OK, vsdaisy, that was unintentional... but now fixed.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, bitch.
Matilda has gone by many aliases here. Longtime readers probably know a few of them. Regardless, it's par for the course with him.
Mich: Not really. Just an asshole who sometimes likes free entertainment through pointless comments.
I thought this post was gonna be about the cubs.
Lips writes any old thing about the scrubs, I mean cubs on a post and thousands come charging on in, spilling budlite on people, fat bellies sticking out of cubs jerseys and wearing flip flops.
Any way I write and talk how they do in The Wire, son. Cause we do as we do.
Man I'm fiend'n son. I don't know if I can make it to July when the final season comes out on DVD.
As of late, I've been saying "yall best tool up" a lot. Which means "arm up" as in guns, son, arm up with guns!
Sudo, your not going to beleive this, but I had no cluse. Of course it makes sense.
I owe you a beer, well actually its on Marlow Stansfield.
Thanks, Chuck :)
matilda, you are an asshole.
Mich, has no one taught you not to ask ladies if they are PMS-ing? In non-Internet life, that's a mistake you only make once. God help you if they are, and God help you if they aren't.
I don't buy the "we all do this" argument.
This artist DOES deserve ridicule. It seems that if you are engraving something in stone, something that will be seen by hundreds of thousands of people, you should check it once, twice, three times, and then you have several people proofread it.
And when will we get a statue of Sammy holding a syringe?
@Spook:
It's spelled "Stanfield".
You're the "Bubs" of this blog.
Plum plum, sure I'm Bubs as long as you're Old Face Andre
anyone else loving the irony of spook commenting on this?
@Celerysalt:
Hahahahaha!
@Spook:
We've long since established I'm an out of control, chemically unbalanced Irish guy with commitment issues and an unusual charisma.
So yeah, I'm actually Clay Davis.
(Anything to type "Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" once more)
Oh gawd are we doing this again!?
And is that Ward up I see!? Ward Up the archie Bunker of this blog( who makes Fed Up seem like a Harvard tenured professor) who at best strings together a three sentences on every post worthy of a community college remedial class
criticizes some one who actually writes paragraphs!
And that other none person you folks are talking about I'm not even going to comment on as she has me on ignore and I want to keep it that way as Chicagoist is better that way.
Now excuse me, I'm waiting to hear from Margaret about commentator for the month of April
Chuck: So grammar is not important for people who write, either for hobby or pay? That's like saying pigment isn't important to painters, or the right note to musicians, or the right spices to a cook.
I never get why you Chicagoist people are so defensive when others point out your mistakes. Or, are so defensive period when you get less than a pat on the back.
@Matilda:
Mostly because they're suckiest sucks to ever suck.
I keed. Chuck and Kevin are good. And Benjy gets a pass because he's a Sox fan.
Hark! Is that Celery out yonder?
I though she also had me on ignore!
But as I've been engaged by your person, just like your brothers in Mount Greenwood engage "for a little social justice",unlucky folks of color who's cars break down in front of Irish corner bars, please allow me to retort Ma' dear!
I heard your comments about Donna Dunnings. You wanted to see her resume I believe? Well I do know that she went to Northwestern. But what about Celery Salt, can you match Northwestern?
See yo on the lawn! Well perhaps not, as I'm not into experiencing "social justice" via a baseball bat!
Sin.
Spook ;-)
Plum Plum
I'm gonna extend my hand to you.
what about I'll be Chis and you can be Snoop?
To quote L'il John: "What?"
I'm laughing Plumster,
Ten points for you sir.
I'm clearly McNulty
@ Spook: ceep ceeping it reel, broethar.
@ Plum: yep.
PS - Could someone tell me where the hell Mount Prospect is? I've never even heard of it, but apparently I'm supposed to be kicking it there with some irish white supremacists or something.
Sorry, Mount Greenwood. I have no idea where the hell or what the hell that is, so these little insults are lost on me.
Hey UTV, I certanly meant it as an insult to m. And in my experience it it a little more okay for girls to ask other girls about their pms. But if its a guy (as chuck said) then there are other issues there...
(oh and I was wrong, I backed up m on the Kanye post, not Extra Extra)
Maybe Mr. Cub said it without the apostrophe.
Gotcha, mich. Just reacted out of my having taken one upside the head as a younger, more ignorant man.
;)
Plum Plum,
oh I like how at first you were Herc. I could let that go! Now you pull a Dave Chappelle "Lil John" and think you can graduate to McNulty! Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! McNulty is
basically Black, basically! He’s got major cred. with all the brothas in Baltimore both gangstas and cops except for Bird. McNulty is real Black Irish, like Henry James and Emerson, yo!
Seriously don’t push your luck.
Celery Salt,
So,
I take it that your credentials don’t even match one of the premier midwest universities attended by Stroger’s cousin who’s resume YOU demanded, because YOU are smarter than her right?
Let me step back cause I’m gonna have fun with this and I don’t have much time :-)
See, your Spook aint surprised. I can tell your level of intellect by reading what you write. And you my dear are nothing but the ugly insecure midwest supercilious kin to catholic- small c, closed minded knuckle dragging, cheap beer swilling, midwest frat boys and girls of Bridgeport and Mt Greenwood origins who demonstrate their “worldliness” by moving to Lincoln Park.
Meanwhile they contine to think they're elite because they’re from the same tribe as the savages who continue to run this backward city into the tar pits.
You are no better and no more educated than your over paid Bridgeport brother who works in the sewer for Chicago. But of course you both think you're peering down from Mount Olympus when really you're nothing but cave people putting on airs whist looking up at me, Your Spook!
Oh yes and I will keep it real, cause that’s how I do, indeed!
See, your Spook aint surprised.
Spook, you might need to see the Cubs' engraver about his services...
Dude I'll do any think if you change that picture! And I thought they retired Walter Payton's shirt when he died? Now they let some big corn fed red neck wear it!?
Opps I'm probaly insulting one of celery salt's viking heros!
Man I'm amped like Tupac! Or like Common said, hyped like I'm unsigned deliver me like the Suntimes.
Spook
coming at ya from all levels
including from the Perspective of the Commentator of the Month for April!
@ spook:
not that this is worth mentioning, but you've gotten exactly zero percent correct in your assumptions about me - from my occupation to my neighborhood, culture - even gender. really. but you're having fun, that's cool. i recognize your tactic for engaging people on this board. you take a nugget of personal information someone offers (i AM catholic) and then you build a stereotype and try to engage them with little taunts. it's pathetic. PATHETIC. it also shows that you live a very sad, lonely life, because you spend a LOT of time doing it here.
i urge you to continue your blather as you see fit, but i also want to let you know that though you paint yourself as the "board thug/angry black man," you're a joke. you post here because you have zero credibility and no one listens to you "in the 'hood you bought your condo in....."
...wait....
see asshole? two can play at that game.
and if you really are "the angry black man" you try to make yourself out to be, you should really know better than to fuck with someone from SAGINAW, MICHIGAN - a town that makes Lawndale look like Winnetka.
This is the last time I intend on speaking to you - your bitch ass is on IGNORE - AND NOTICE - henceforth, so your little taunts are impotent.
eat a dick, you malevolent, disrespectful, illiterate, LD fucktard.
love,
me
ps - by the way -i'll take the bait on this one. if it interests you, i went a terrible little school called the university of michigan.
"eat a dick, you malevolent, disrespectful, illiterate, LD fucktard"
I don't think the above are Commentator of the month quality comments. Thank Gawd for that ignore key :-)
@Spook:
You should see what I do to your mom on the top of police cruiser cars.
I'm closing the comments on this post. Not only are they off-topic, they're chuck full o' personal attacks and general nastiness.